Bed-bottom



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NATHAN T. MELVIN, on LODI, OHIO.

BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 253,303, dated February '7, 1882.

Application filed November 28, 1881. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN T. MELvIN, of Lodi, in the county of Medina and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and Im proved Bed-Bottom; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and complete description thereof.

My improvement relates to a spring bed-bottom; and it-consists of looped or bowsprings coiled around the foot and head rail of the bedstead, into which the bent ends of theloop are inserted on the lower side, and also in combination with the bed-supporting slats having a groove or neck at each end, into which groove the wire of the spring is entered, upon which springs are hung slats or rods extending from the head to the foot, which makes an easilyconstructed and highly-elastic bed-bottom.

For a more full and complete description of the invention, reference will be had to the following specification and annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view; Fig. 2, a side view; Fig. 3, an end view from the inside. Fig. at is a view of one of the springs detached. Fig. 5 is a detached view of the slats or rods.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The object of this improvement is to make a bed-bottom that will be easy and flexible for use and cheap of construction. To attain this object the head and foot rails are made an element in the combination, dispensing with the ordinary frame attachment required in spring bed-bottoms.

In the drawings, A B, Figs. 1 and 2, represent the lower rails of the head and foot of a bedstead, to which the wire coiled springs G are connected by driving the ends a a, Fig. 4, of the spring, tightly preferably, into the under side of each rail or supporting-bar, as indicated, at or about the point I) b, Fig. 2, from which it extends by coiling around the rail, as seen in the drawings, and terminating in a suspendingloop, D, Figs. 1 and 8, by which loops the slats or rods E, Fig. 5, are suspended by cutting a groove, F, in oraround the end ot'the rod alittle larger than the diameter of the spring-wire, so that the groove F will be inclosed within the loop I), as seen in Figs. 1 and 2. This groove will prevent the rods or slats from slipping or moving out of place from the loops of the springs. It also offers an easy and ready means of withdrawing the rods from the springs and replacing them, as may be required. In case the said rods become bent down or depressed 'by use they can be quickly turned over to present the depressed side upward.

The springs may be arranged all in one side of the rails, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, or they may be connected to the rail alternately on both the inside and outside of each rail. By leaving a part of the springs to hang upon the inside and a part on the outside, as indicated at G and 0, Fig. 2, the strain or weight upon the slats E would then be upon each side of the rail and not entirely upon the inside, which would prevent the rails from bending in the line of the strain or springing toward each other by the weight between upon the slats when in use. The springs may be either round or flat steel, iron, or its equivalent.

My construction and arrangementof the bedstead for which the described bed-bottom is preferably designed are set forth and described in a separate application for a patent. The said bed-bottom may, however, be adapted to other bedsteads without departing from the nature of my improvement, as the rails A B, to which the springs are connected, may be secured to an ordinary bedstead or form a part of a frame and be placed within the bedstead, which would produce essentially the same results, but with increased cost of construction over the first arrangement described by connecting the springs to the lower rail or bar of the head and foot.

By this improvement a light wire admits of its conhection with bedsteads in such way that the springs may be attached to or hung from the sides of the bedstead instead of the ends, and the slats or rails in that case would extend transversely instead of longitudinally, as shown.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The coiled spring formed into a sustaining-loop having the ends thereof for insertion into the bottom of the rail and being curved around the rail, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described.

2. The combination of the coiled springs opposite sides of the rail, substantially as and formed into sustaining-loops and the bed-supfor the purpose described. IO porting slats 0r rods with necks or grooves at In testimony whereof I affix my signature each end, substantially as and for the purpose in presence of two Witnesses.

5 described. NATHAN T. MELVIN.

3. A series of coiled springs formed into sus- Witnesses: mining-loops and with ends for insertion into B. F. GRIsWELL,

the rail, as described arranged alternately on I J. (J. SNELL. 

